Conversational Repair and Human Understanding: 30 (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, Series Number 30) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107002796 ISBN 13: 9781107002791

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Humans are imperfect, and problems of speaking, hearing and understanding are pervasive in ordinary interaction. This book examines the way we 'repair' and correct such problems as they arise in conversation and other forms of human interaction. The first book-length study of this topic, it brings together a team of scholars from the fields of anthropology, communication, linguistics and sociology to explore how speakers address problems in their own talk and that of others, and how the practices of repair are interwoven with non-verbal aspects of communication such as gaze and gesture, across a variety of languages. Specific chapters highlight intersections between repair and epistemics, repair and turn construction, and repair and action formation. Aimed at researchers and students in sociolinguistics, speech communication, conversation analysis and the broader human and social sciences to which they contribute - anthropology, linguistics, psychology and sociology - this book provides a state-of-the-art review of conversational repair, while charting new directions for future study.

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About the Authors

Makoto Hayashi is Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Geoffrey Raymond is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Jack Sidnell is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107002796
• ISBN 13: 9781107002791
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 396
• Editor: Hayashi Makoto, Raymond Geoffrey, Sidnell Jack